The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London’s population ... This latest finding could help researchers understand the evolution of plague bacteria ...

This can happen during times of war or mass illness, such as a plague. Crossrail, a subsidiary of Transport for London, has been deploying archaeologists to the site for more than a decade and has ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease in the mid-1300s. Later outbreaks, like the one in London in 1665, have been referred to as 'the Plague'.